A gift from the late Myles Brand that keeps on giving. I know one school in North Dakota was coerced to change their name.
> The NCAA made most of their member institutions change their nicknames away from Native American names.
Don’t get me started. I have a special place in my bladder for Myles Brand; as university president, he wrecked my alma mater, Indiana University, before he went on to wreck the NCAA. It wasn’t the debasement of Bob Knight that made me mad. He took a school that had national standing in Chemistry, Music, Business and Medicine, and trashed it. My degree has less value thanks to him.
The whole “Native American” thing was just more of “Brand X.” If I recall, his wife was a professor of “women’s studies.”
He was the epitome of everything wrong with academia.